[PATCH 2/8] powerpc/nvram: Return directly after a failed kmalloc() in dev_nvram_write()
From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Thu Jan 19 2017 - 11:56:03 EST
From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:44:03 +0100
Return directly after a call of the function "kmalloc" failed here.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
index 37d08b95c3f0..cf839adf3aa7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
@@ -802,11 +802,9 @@ static ssize_t dev_nvram_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
count = min_t(size_t, count, size - *ppos);
count = min(count, PAGE_SIZE);
-
- ret = -ENOMEM;
tmp = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tmp)
- goto out;
+ return -ENOMEM;
ret = -EFAULT;
if (copy_from_user(tmp, buf, count))
--
2.11.0